In her new book Prof. Elisheva Carlebach focuses on the role manuscript and printed calendars (sifre evronot) played in the life of pre-modern and early modern European Jews. She notes in her introduction that the schedule of workdays and holidays was “as powerful a sign of cultural influence as any badge, language or physical marker.” Jewish calendars delineated this schedule and differentiated it from that of the surrounding non-Jewish society.
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Archive for August, 2011
Palaces of Time by Elisheva Carlebach
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan. Stanford University Press, 2011. This book represents a study of the Jewish influence in Strasbourg in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. All Jews were expelled from Strasbourg in 1390, and were only readmitted in 1791. Yet the Jews retained an influence [...]
Opening the Gates of Interpretation by Mordechai Z. Cohen
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides’ Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andlusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu, by Mordechai Z. Cohen. Brill, 2011. Prof. Mordechai Cohen’s study of Maimonides’ method of biblical interpretation has at its heart an exacting analysis of each passage in Maimonides’ Book of the Commandments in which the term peshuto shel [...]
A Multi-Faith Approach to Scripture
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011After Leading an International Research Team on Jewish, Christian and Muslim Scriptural Interpretation, Dr. Mordechai Cohen Returns to Revel Dr. Mordechai Cohen, a leading world scholar of Jewish Bible interpretation, has taught at Yeshiva University for more than 23 years. Last year, however, this popular professor went off campus. Specifically, Cohen was in Jerusalem, where [...]
A Biblical Translation in the Making, by Richard C. Steiner
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011A Biblical Translation in the Making : the Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir, by Richard C. Steiner. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2010. R. Saadia Gaon (882-942), one of the greatest Jewish sages of the Middle Ages, composed a translation of the Torah into Arabic, which forms the subject of Prof. Steiner’s [...]
Shana Strauch Schick is the first woman to receive a doctorate in Talmud from Yeshiva University.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011PhD Students Enrolled at Revel School of Jewish Studies at an All-Time High Article and Photography by Yeshiva University Office of Communication and Public Affairs After successfully defending her dissertation on August 4, Shana Strauch Schick, a New Jersey native now living in Detroit, will be awarded a doctorate in Talmud from Yeshiva University’s Bernard [...]
